Fri.Mar 13, 2020

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In-Depth: Bringing innovation to places that need it most

Mobi Health News

A nation of over 200 million citizens, Pakistan is a major player in South Asia, with a large population to care for. Like many countries around the world, it is struggling to address the shortage of doctors and prevalence of chronic diseases while ensuring access to affordable medicine. But where there are challenges, there is also room for innovation.

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Orion Health releases remote patient monitoring platform to combat COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Orion Health released a pandemic outbreak monitoring platform to help healthcare organizations respond to the COVID-19 virus, as well as a website to help people globally understand their risk for the disease. Among the core features of the platform are remote monitoring capabilities, allowing for the engagement of patients in their homes, as well as facilitating communication between quarantined people and the healthcare service and maintaining visibility of those recently discharged.

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Bringing innovation to places that need it most

Mobi Health News

A nation of over 200 million citizens, Pakistan is a major player in South Asia, with a large population to care for. Like many countries around the world, it is struggling to address the shortage of doctors and prevalence of chronic diseases while ensuring access to affordable medicine. But where there are challenges, there is also room for innovation.

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ACOs seek flexibility from CMS to mitigate losses due to coronavirus

FierceHealthIT

Accountable care organizations are worried that without help from CMS they could be on the hook for spending losses due to the major spread of coronavirus.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Employers balance coronavirus disclosure with privacy

Morning eHealth

Telehealth groups ask for more leeway — Coronavirus stresses antiquated health IT

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Tools4ever’s Information Security Systems Achieve ISO 27001 Certification

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Tools4ever, one of the world’s largest providers of identity governance and administration solutions and services, is proud to announce that it has been certified for the ISO 27001 standard. This certification is issued by Brand […]. The article Tools4ever’s Information Security Systems Achieve ISO 27001 Certification appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Report: Cancer death rates declined between 2001 and 2017

FierceHealthIT

In the midst of an otherwise unsettling week on the health front, researchers provided a glimmer of good news: Cancer deaths have continued to drop.

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Why Is It So Hard To Streamline Prior Authorizations?

Healthcare IT Today

For many providers, obtaining a prior authorization (PA) involves manually faxing documents to a payer or sitting on hold for a long time – an inefficient and error prone process. The solution is not as easy as adopting automation. As we learned in a recent panel of experts from J2 Global, WEDI and CAQH, addressing […].

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Industry Voices—How health data could help with COVID-19 (if we can get it right)

FierceHealthIT

Manifest MedEx' Claudia Williams on how shared data can be a critical tool in pandemics.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

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COVID-19 is hear and spreading – now what?

American Well

What many of us in the healthcare industry expected would occur – the inevitable spread of COVID-19 to and within the U.S. is now happening. What is surprising, however, is the rate at which the virus is spreading – so fast in fact that the World Health Organization has now deemed the outbreak a pandemic. In many ways, the country and its healthcare providers are not ready nor adequately equipped to handle the increased demand that COVID-19 is putting on our clinical teams and resources.

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Payers, providers: HHS' interoperability timelines not realistic with coronavirus

FierceHealthIT

Payer and provider organizations say HHS' timelines to implement interoperability regulations are "troubling" given the current evolving pandemic. Find out why industry stakeholders say building patient-facing APIs and data-sharing capabilities in six to nine months is not realistic.

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Coronavirus Cartoons – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

If there was ever a week that we needed an edition of Fun Friday, I think this is the week. Not to make light of the challenging situation we face, but hopefully to put a little smile on your face. Of course, if you haven’t taken a look at our 17 Coronavirus Actions for Healthcare […].

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Connecting the Dots between CoPs and Accrediting Standards to Learning

HealthStream

By identifying risks of compliance to the CoPs and accreditation standards, an organization can take effective action to protect its valuable relationship with federally funded healthcare organizations, as well as private payers.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.

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Join us at London Futurists: What should we learn from the Covid-19 crisis?

mHealth Insight

Starting at 14.00 UK time (GMT) on Saturday 14th March this online Zoom discussion is scheduled to run for around 90 minutes and will include a number of initial short talks followed by a group discussion (in which all online attendees can participate) of the lessons that futurists can learn as individuals, nations and as a global community from the Covid-19 crisis.

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Weekender 3/13/20

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap COVID-19 dominates the national and healthcare.

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Top Three Takeaways From Digital Health Rewired in London

Digital Health Today

On March 4th, I attended the Digital Health Rewired conference in London on behalf of Digital Health Today. The attendees and presenters took every opportunity to highlight technologies and techniques for improving the efficiency of healthcare delivery globally. However, most sessions focused on the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Here are the three most important themes that I took away from the day.

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COVID-19: Telehealth Tipping Point

Telebehavioral Health Institute

On March 6, 2020, President Trump signed the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 (the HB 6074). The act grants limited powers to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive several key Medicare telehealth restrictions, allowing … Read more. The post COVID-19: Telehealth Tipping Point appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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CMS releases new flexibility, waiver protections for providers to help handle coronavirus

FierceHealthIT

The Trump administration has issued blanket waivers and new flexibilities to help hospitals and facilities cope with the coronavirus outbreak.

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